According to a brief news clip in a newspaper, “Names in the News” 25 September 2008, we find out that the popular singer, Clay Aiken, is a self-proclaimed homosexual. In the short piece, Simon Cowell made this statement in part, “I don’t think anyone cares. Let’s face it. It’s 2008. You know. Who cares?” In deed, who cares! It behooves all of us that love and respect the Word of God to care.

According to a brief news clip in a newspaper, “Names in the News” 25 September 2008, we find out that the popular singer, Clay Aiken, is a self-proclaimed homosexual. In the short piece, Simon Cowell made this statement in part, “I don’t think anyone cares. Let’s face it. It’s 2008. You know. Who cares?” In deed, who cares! It behooves all of us that love and respect the Word of God to care.

When we look around our world today, we wonder “what’s wrong?” When we look at our country, “what’s wrong?” When we look at our community, it’s the same. The post-modern world tells us that there is no standard for right and wrong, and therefore nothing is wrong, any behavior is acceptable. At the rate we have been going, in a few years rape and murder will be labeled as acceptable behavior. You laugh, but if there is no standard for living, if all behavior is acceptable, then how can a society condemn any practice? We condone adultery today in the name of “happiness.” We allow pornography in the name of “free speech.” We celebrate homosexuality and murder (abortion) in the name of “choice.” How long will it be before rape falls into the category of “happiness” or “choice”? A few months ago, a judge in Vermont sentenced a convicted child rapist to only 60 days in prison! In 2003, another radical Ohio judge overturned a convicted child rapists’ sentence because a Bible verse was the basis for his harsh conviction (Matthew 18:5-6)! These men already feel that rape is no worse than stealing candy! We are in a moral crisis! …How long will we continue to allow God’s Word to be dissolved as the standard for right and wrong? … When we leave the standard, we are on a crash course with disaster (Psalm 33:12; Proverbs 14:34)! How long will it be? That’s up to you!”

Years ago when I counseled men that were in treatment for alcohol or drug abuse, I used an illustration to help them to see their disastrous course. I said, “Picture yourself in a speeding car, driving madly down a street. At the end of this street was a great brick wall. You can stop and change course or crash. The decision is up to you.” Friends, let’s stop and return to a stable and the proven way. Along with Joshua, may we all be able to say, “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).